Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

For centuries prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help them identify primes and the way they are distributed among other ...

When I was in high school, I wanted to be Jake Long. Not Albert Einstein, the genius behind the general theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc^2, or John Von Neumann, ...

William “Bill” Browder, an emeritus professor of mathematics, died in early February at the age of 91. He died at home, excited about a new math idea he’d just had, held in his wife’s arms. “Bill ...